{"id":145843,"date":"2026-02-09T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145843"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:00:26","slug":"why-china-is-worried-that-japan-election-may-prompt-change-to-pacifist-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145843","title":{"rendered":"Why China is worried that Japan election may prompt change to pacifist constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s landslide victory has raised concern in China that she may seek to change the country\u2019s pacifist constitution.<br \/>\nBeijing would regard any change to the constitution, which renounces the use of force to settle international disputes, as a threat to regional stability and is likely to react strongly to any changes.<br \/>\nTakaichi has previously suggested she wanted to change Article 9 of the constitution, imposed after Japan\u2019s defeat in World War II, which&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3342964\/why-china-worried-japan-election-may-prompt-change-pacifist-constitution?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s landslide victory has raised concern in China that she may seek to change the country\u2019s pacifist constitution. Beijing would&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145843"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}